Australian Politics

Even as a lefty, I wish there was a functional opposition (though I wish the opposition was further left than ALP tbh).

Well, vote Green, preference Labor?

Don’t be so oversure. Everyone seems to be concluding that this will result in the Tories becoming even more unelectable and in permanent ALP one-party rule until the Greens become the opposition or the sun goes nova, though seem to have forgotten that the equally dislikable gronk Dutton was cruising to victory until the realities of the second Trump administration derailed the electoral ambitions of the Trump-adjacent right (as they did in Canada).

If Labor rests on the comfort of having no challengers and becomes shit and the public get sick of them, they will eventually vote for someone else whom the billionaire-owned media push, whether is whatever megachurch headbangers are jumping up and down under the Liberal Party banner, Hanson, Palmer, some actual neo-Nazis who have unconvincingly repudiated the whole master-race thing and strategically only wear long-sleeved shirts, or someone else. And then we’ll be back to where we were in the long Howard era, where it’s as common knowledge that The Strayans Are A Conservative Mob as it was before the election that Yeah Nah We’re Not Buying It.

The ALP is the opposition. It doesn't make a lick of difference that they have been elected to government.